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In many parts of China, cash is almost gone. 😳 From street food to taxis, everything runs on QR codes using apps like WeChat and Alipay. Your phone isn’t just a device… it’s your wallet.

Chinese tech giant TenCent has released its new payment method called “Palm Payment”, letting customers pay by having the palm of their hand scanned. 🤯 This all connected to the WeChat app.

Facial Recognition Payments

The definitional lines between globalization and globalism have long been blurred. For its part, globalization is best defined as a process or series of processes that integrate the world economically, politically and socially. Globalism’s critical role But what is globalism? Quite often, the term is used synonymously with the word “globalization,” as if the two words were interchangeable. To be sure, the word “globalist” has come to be a battle cry — primarily on the political right, but is also one on the political left. The “globalist” charge is alternatively (ab)used to describe either the creation of some imaginary and...

Digital ID: Billionaires are CIRCLING your digital life - it's time to WAKE UP

Your plastic driver's license is getting a digital upgrade. Twenty states and Puerto Rico now offer some kind of digital driver’s license. The technology allows you to share a minimum level of information to prove identity by tapping your phone on a reader or scanning a QR code . Some states allow digital IDs and drivers licenses to be added directly into your mobile wallet. Others offer a state-backed mobile app. But privacy experts have concerns around digital security and government data collection, warning that frictionless identification could lead to things like increased surveillance pricing. PBS News’ Tim McPhillips spoke...

Sir Keir Starmer announced in September that all UK citizens are to have mandatory ID to prove their right to live and work in the country. People in India, who have had digital IDs for years, tell Sky's Sam Coates how they work their country.

China is so CASHLESS that even beggars use WeChat QR code when they beg for money.

People in China pay using their hand — but how? All you have to do is hover your hand over the POS terminal, which uses infrared cameras to scan your palm. Beforehand, you have to use a device that registers your palm print and vein pattern and connects it to your bank card.

A couple was left bewildered after they discovered how some shops in China are taking payment.

How Will Digital IDs Work?

Digital ID is set to be expanded, in a move the government hopes will stop Aussies from being bogged down by online paperwork. #9News

The Digital Print x CHINA x Jordan B Peterson

What started out as a plan for a common market evolved has matured into a central planner’s paradise with all the associated problems that once gripped the Soviet Union. The European Union is essentially the project of a bureaucratic elite, and is undemocratic at its core. It was designed, from its inception, to wrest power from the democratic institutions of individual European members and vest it within the EU bureaucracy. In recent decades, it has taken on a hideous form with the embrace of climate eschatology and destruction of industry in the name of net-zero. Even worse, it has promoted...

How Central Banks Plan to Control You | Catherine Fitts Interesting talk about money and power. Would like freeper input. What is to stop people from banding together and forming private bank entities like the Chinese do on chinatowns?

Digital IDs offer undeniable benefits, but they come with risks that strike at the heart of conservative values: privacy, individual autonomy, and skepticism of centralized authority. uppose for a moment that Joe Citizen and his lovely wife are rendered unconscious in an auto accident. Joe is a diabetic and suffers from hypertension, while his wife is under medication for rheumatic heart disease and is allergic to some types of antibiotics. When the EMTs arrive they scan their embedded chips, quickly ascertain their blood types, their medical history, their doctors' names, and their insurance information. Treatment begins almost immediately. Joe is...

Say "NO!" to a Global Digital ID

One of the European Central Bank’s most complex and controversial projects is heading for a crucial test in the first half of 2026, when the European parliament is expected to vote on the digital euro. The plan cleared a key hurdle in late December, when the European Council backed the ECB’s plan to launch an electronic equivalent to cash: a digital currency that works in stores, online and in peer-to-peer transactions. One of the European Central Bank’s most complex and controversial projects is heading for a crucial test in the first half of 2026, when the European parliament is expected...

Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has announced the launch of what he called a “new strategic partnership” with China, following high-level talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, marking the first visit by a Canadian leader in eight years. Speaking alongside Xi at the Great Hall of the People, Carney said the two countries had an opportunity to reshape their relationship in light of a changing global landscape. “Together, we can build on the strongest elements of our past relationship and forge a new one suited to today’s realities,” he said. On Friday, Carney revealed that Ottawa and Beijing had...